Biography
Kim Alpert combines analog and digital technologies, movement, music, and interactivity, to create sculptural and performance-based video systems. Kim’s visual practice centers on humanism with inquisitions into psychology and spirituality – understanding and translating the impact of visual language to create meaning.
Kim uses a range of technologies, feedback, archival and found footage to weave dream tapestries both recorded and improvised. A significant part of Kim’s performed work is in collaboration with improvisational musicians, blending pre-rendered content with live visualizations. Alpert’s work has been presented at The Art Institute of Chicago, Symphony Center, SOFA Expo, The Stony Island Arts Bank, The Walker Art Center, Roulette Intermedium, Bimhuis, as well as numerous alternative art spaces, galleries, and festivals internationally. Kim has performed in collaborative and cross-discipline works with a range of artists including Mike Reed, Ken Vandermark, claire rousay, Makaya McCraven, jaimie branch, Rob Mazurek, and Matt Lux.
Previously, has served as a curator for Elastic Arts and the Around the Coyote Festival. She continues to serve the arts community through her work on the board of Experimental Sound Studio. Kim’s consulting practice supports other artists and arts organizations as they grow. She is an arts residency alumni of the Chicago Art Department as well as Signal Culture.
She holds degrees in Digital Art & Design from Full Sail University and was inducted into their hall of fame in 2013. Kim’s interactive room, Bodyphonic, a gesture driven instrument and longitudinal sound visualizer, is on display at the Studio Bell, National Music Center of Canada.
Uses design to solve problems for brands. In her commercial work, she has developed expertise in building programmatic executions merging aesthetics, psychology and technology. This, coupled with holistic analytics, yields better decision-making and provides a unique ability to fine-tune actionable plans that get results.
Kim speaks internationally at conferences on living a creative life, overcoming adverse situations, emerging media, and humanism. Kim is currently works out of her creative studio Make Amazing. She is an outspoken advocate for social change through technology, meditation and bananas.
